Tigania West Member of Parliament Hon. Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga has said that he served on the committee that drafted the UDA party constitution, which established guidelines that no single person could claim ownership of the party, as President Kenyatta did with Jubilee.
Speaking to Journalists yesterday, Mutunga said that the party does not currently have a Governor candidate in Meru County for the August 9 2022 general elections, but that a meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday to discuss the issue. He said that they wanted everyone to rally behind Dp Ruto.
He said the UDA party is represented in each of the 47 counties where the party chairman is from Ukambani, the secretary-general, Madam Veronica is from Murang’a County and the treasurer is from Kisii County.
He said Meru County has a deputy secretary-general in charge of program strategy in the UDA party leadership, Mr Marete. In the same capacity, he said the UDA party has a representative from Tharaka Nithi County.
” The UDA party has been structured in such a way that it will include everyone. The truth is that everyone will eventually join the National Movement,” he said.
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Mutunga said Governor Kiraitu Murungi should not claim to be forming the RBK party for the people of Mt. Kenya East.
“People form political parties for a variety of reasons. People form political parties because other men like them have political parties, or because the members of the party are of the same age group,” he said.
Mutunga said the UDA party’s bottom-up model aims to access people’s economies from the ground up. He said it will prevent people from believing that only someone from their community can assist them once they reach the highest levels of leadership.
“The top-down economic model only benefits those at the top leadership. Kenyans are fighting because each tribe believes that there is only one member of their tribe in the top leadership who can bargain on their behalf. BBI aimed at creating seats at the highest levels of government so that more people from a specific community could benefit,” he said.
The MP said the UDA party does not consider BBI to be important at the moment because there is no point in having more seats, deciding how to divide them, or determining which position a person will be assigned to. He said the most important thing is that people have money.
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